HomeMy WebLinkAboutMemoDEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY
DEFENSE ENERGY SUPPORT CENTER
2261 HUGHES AVENUE, SUITE 128
LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, TEXAS 78236.9828
IN REPLY
REFER TO DESC-RR
MEMORANDUM FOR
Miami Police Department
ATTN: Commander Steven Caceres
18 January 2005
SUBJ: Appointment as Accountable Official
Defense Energy Support Center (DESC) contracts for the Aviation Intoplane Reimbursement
(AIR) Card Program and is the Program Management Office for all DoD fuel cards utilized today. You
were nominated to the position of Accountable Official for the above account. This is formal notification
of your appointment as an Accountable Official by Mr. David Lawson, Certifying Officer, DESC, Retail
Management Division (DESC-RR), San Antonio, Texas, in support of the AIR Card program. Enclosed
is a copy of this letter to be forwarded to your local installation Commander. An Accountable Official
moist be a U.S. Government official, employee, or military member, not contractor personnel. If you
are not the appropriate person for this position, please contact Mr. Alvin Morgan at DSN 945-2438,
commercial 210-925-2438, or email aircard(a),d1a.mi] to provide a substitute nominee.
As an Accountable Official, you are responsible for supporting the certification of payment
vouchers and documents for the vendor payment for fuel purchases under the AIR Card program.
Chapter 33, Volume 5, of the Department of Defense (DoD) Financial Management Regulation (FMR)
describes your responsibilities and pecuniary liability as an Accountable Official. You should read and
become thoroughly familiar with these responsibilities and liability. Additionally, you must review all of
the AIR Card Policy documentation and complete AIR Card interactive training located at:
lAp://www.desc.dla.mil/DCM/DCMPage.asp?pageid=30.
After reading this regulation, you must acknowledge your appointment and acknowledge that you read
and understood your responsibilities and liability by signing in the space provided on the
acknowledgement at enclosure (1). Please return the signed acknowledgement letter to DESC-RRF
within 15 days of the receipt of this appointment letter.
If your duties as Accountable Official for the AIR Card Program also include responsibility for
certifying invoices for ancillary ground service invoices billed directly to your organization, Chapter 33,
Volume 5, of the DoD FMR describes your responsibilities, accountability, and duties as a Certifying
Official. You should read and become thoroughly familiar with this information and submit a DD Form
577 to the disbursing officer at your finance office if you have not already done so. See the website at:
hitp://www.defensclinl:.mil/comptroller/fmr/05/05 33,pdf.
DAVID A. LAWSON
Chief, Retail Management Division
Defense Energy Support Center
Enclosure
(1) Acknowledgement of Appointment as Accountable Official
Cc: Installation Commander